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Ken Burns

KEN BURNS, the producer and director of numerous film series, including Vietnam, The Roosevelts, and The War, founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.
Blood Memory
Our America
The Vietnam War
Country Music
Grover Cleveland, Again!
The War
Baseball
The National Parks
Jazz
The Civil War

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Blood Memory
Our America
The Vietnam War
Country Music
Grover Cleveland, Again!
The War
Baseball
The National Parks
Jazz
The Civil War

Country Music: An Illustrated History

     It begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns,mountain hollers, and the wide-open West

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